Movie Fieldwork Footage 1928 Subtitled Online
ClassificationMovie
Age rating+13
Year1928
Rating★ 5.7
Duration3 m
GenresDocumentary
Story
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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